The Walt Disney Company

Principal Strategic Operations

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Glendale • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $167,700 - $246,400 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the creation of executive-ready materials, including board updates, QBRs, strategic initiative decks, and product vision presentations.
  • Translate technical, operational, and business inputs into clear, compelling visual narratives tailored to VP, SVP, and C-level audiences.
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, and sales leaders to synthesize priorities and milestones into concise, presentation-friendly formats.
  • Manage internal forums such as town halls and leadership updates, ensuring effective messaging and engagement across the org.
  • Maintain and administer roadmap tools to support alignment and visualization of product priorities.
  • Own the documentation and continuous refinement of the Ad Platforms organizational operating model—capturing how product and engineering collaborate across intake, planning, development, QA, and release.
  • Maintain a living library of process artifacts, including RACI charts, planning cadences, intake flows, and delivery frameworks.
  • Ensure a consistent voice and visual identity across all strategic communications within the ad platforms organization.
  • Lead OKR development and executive-level reporting on performance.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic operations, business operations, or product strategy within technology, media, or advertising.
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
  • Exceptional presentation development skills with mastery of Google Slides or PowerPoint, and a strong portfolio of executive-facing materials.
  • Ability to translate complexity into clarity—both visually and narratively.
  • Excellent storytelling, editing, and written communication skills, with experience supporting VP- and C-level executives.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to gather inputs across technical and non-technical teams and distill them into a cohesive narrative.
  • Experience managing roadmap visualization tools and maintaining source-of-truth documents and frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of advertising technology, monetization strategies, and the digital media landscape.
  • Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
presentation developmentroadmap visualizationstorytellingeditingwritten communicationcollaborationdocumentationoperating model refinementOKR developmentperformance reporting
Soft skills
organizational skillsadaptabilityclarity in communicationengagementsynthesis of prioritiesvisual narrative creationeffective messagingteam collaborationcomfort with ambiguityfast-paced environment adaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degree
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